February is bringing the mayhem. Sunday night marks the return of Season 1 of 1923, and we can expect the conflict at the Yellowstone to reach a crescendo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qhwVzpAzc * “‘You are hereby ordered to fall upon the Rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and putt all to the sword under Seventy.’” The YouTube Channel … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Montana Mayhem; Scottish Slaughter

My friend Deuce Richardson shanghaied me into this here blogging trade many years ago, with an invitation to write for the award-winning Robert E. Howard site The Cimmerian. These days, he’s working with DMR Books, which publishes fantasy, horror, and adventure fiction in the traditions of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, and … [Read more...] about Rangers & Wardens

Sharpen up your tomahawks, Frontier Partisans. Jack Carr’s The Terminal List is getting a second season. From Deadline: The Terminal List is continuing — and becoming a franchise for Amazon Studios. I have learned that Prime Video has finalized a Season 2 renewal for the hit series starring and executive produced by Chris Pratt, and also has … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Baptized & Buried On The Terminal List

You can run on for a long time... Nathan Chasing Horse got run off the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana back in 2015 after the tribal council alleged that the purported Lakota spiritual leader engaged in human trafficking, drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal members. Chasing Horse, best known for his role as Smiles A Lot … [Read more...] about Chasing Horse Bust

My amigos at the Sisters Folk Festival have launched a brand new event, set for June: This is a stacked lineup. As you can imagine, I am beyond stoked that Corb Lund is coming to town. Hot damn! Hoping maybe we can get a campfire like this one going — in warmer conditions. Any Frontier Partisans out there up for a … [Read more...] about Working the Trapline — Bayou, Bullet Garden & Big Ponderoo

Here’s a bit of synchronicity. Just in time for the release of Part III of The Frontier Partisans Podcast on King Philip’s War — The War Spreads. Atun-Shei Films produced what turns out to be an excellent companion piece for the episode, as the Nipmuc jump into the fray and lash the Massachusetts Bay Colony furiously. Ambush tactics play hell with … [Read more...] about Warriors Of The Dawn

Hat tip to Floyd Leithauser for scouting up this piece of news: Winchester has released a commemorative edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the iconic .40-40 lever action Model 1873 “The Gun that Won the West.” 150 years ago, the revered Winchester Model 1873 began its historic run. Similar to the earlier Model 1866 "Yellow Boy," the '73 … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — An Iconic Winchester; Life & Death Struggles

By Matthew Ilseman Eugene “Sledgehammer” Sledge’s war memoir, With the Old Breed, is a tour through Hell. In our modern age of excessive comfort it can be hard to imagine the level suffering that the Marines and soldiers of World War II went through. This is why it is important to read books like this one. So that we can at some level understand … [Read more...] about With The Old Breed

The world war that young George Washington touched off in the backcountry of Pennsylvania in 1754 was a European-wide struggle that pulled in many other powers besides Great Britain and France. Pretty much ALL the Great Powers of Europe, in fact. An epic feat of arms from that mighty tussle — known in North America as the French & Indian War … [Read more...] about Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! — The Immortal Hussar Hadik